Openers – 3 Recommended Card Magic Tricks

by Dominic Reyes 1 Comment

Card magic tricks can be an excellent choice for the first trick you perform for your spectators. The first magic trick is often called an ‘opener’ by magicians.

The card magic tricks to use as openers need to have several important qualities:

The card magic tricks need to be fast.
They need to be visual and easy to understand.
The card magic tricks must be stunning to get peoples attention.
They should be easy to perform, so nothing can go wrong.
The card magic tricks should set a strong and consistent tone for the act.

The team at the Merchant of Magic have hand picked 6 card magic tricks that they feel would be an excellent choice for an act opener.

If you would like to find out more about using card magic tricks as openers, check out this article: How to choose Card Magic Tricks that Make Good Openers

Great Card Magic Trick Openers:

The Invisible Deck

A deck of bicycle playing cards that allows you to perform a wide variety of magic card tricks to your spectators.

Imagine having an invisible deck of playing cards become a visible deck and proving it by also having the freely selected invisible playing card instantly become visible as well. With the invisible deck you can get a spectator to call up a friend who somehow names the one playing card you have turned over in the bicycle deck prior to the call. There are many, many other uses.

The Ambitious Card

It’s been said that the Ambitious Card may be the most magical thing you can perform with a deck of cards, and with this DVD and the classic routines and performers it offers, you’ll never be at a loss for yet another way to make the spectator’s card come to the top of the deck as if by magic.

Identity

Approach anyone complete stranger and have a card selected, marked and then shuffled fully into the deck of cards. Next, you simply make a series of random marks on the back of any indifferent playing card. Those marks VISIBLY JUMP from card to card, finally VANISHING COMPLETELY. The cards are slowly spread to show the marks on the back of one card… It’s the spectator’s signed selection. ANOTHER impossible kicker… You offer the card to the spectator to keep. But to make it unique to them… You just give the card a shake… THE MARKS ON THE BACK OF THE CARD MAGICALLY AND VISUALLY FUSE INTO THE SPECTATOR’S VERY OWN NAME!

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The 3 Card Tricks Every Magician Should Learn

by Dominic Reyes 1 Comment

2876 magicians were asked to recommend just 3 magic card tricks

they thought every magician should learn.

Choosing magic card tricks can be very confusing. These are so many card tricks to choose from and they all have different results and levels of ability. The good news is that a few card tricks stand out above all the others to be the core tricks almost every beginner and expert should own. We polled 2876 magicians and asked them to recommend just 3 magic card tricks they thought every magician should learn.

THE BEST BUY CARD TRICK WINNERS

The Invisible Deck

The Svengali Deck

The Stripper Deck

The results were pretty much to be expected. Each of the most popular choices for magic card tricks turned out to be solid, easy to learn magic playing card decks that do the hard work for you. The special playing card decks are all specially gimmicked to give the owner the ability to perform a wide range of magic tricks, rather than being ‘one trick ponies’.

The most popular first choice was the Invisible Deck, getting over 61% of the votes.

Starting with self working magic card tricks is a great idea. The deck performs the technical part of the magic trick itself, which allows the performer to focus on his presentation and timing. It’s a great way to build confidence in your magic.

The decks are also the preferred starting magic tricks for kids. The instructions are easy to follow, and kids can do easy to follow tricks at first, then work up to more advanced tricks as they develop. Picking magic card tricks that grow with a kids’ abilities makes real sense.

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Ultimate Self Working Card Tricks – Free Instant Download

by Dominic Reyes 1 Comment

Ultimate Self Working Card Tricks have a new DVD in the series. You can try it for free.

Great card magic tricks don't need to use sleight of hand. The Ultimate Self Working Card Tricks series has been one of the most popular magic DVD training series of all time, and now volume 3 has been released. We've been given permission to give you one of the magic tricks from the DVD free of charge.

'I'm a huge fan of the Ultimate Self Working Card Tricks series of DVD's. Many of the magicians that come to me for tuition have two common problems:

1) Lack of confidence in their sleight of hand ability

2) They have not worked on their performance style.

I use the self working card magic tricks in this series as course material to solve both these problems. Firstly I need to show the student that they don't need sleight of hand to become an entertaining card magician. Learning just a few very strong magic tricks that are self working can provide you with all the card magic tricks you need to entertain an audience for years. There's nothing wrong with learning sleight of hand, when you really want to perform a magic effect that HAS to use it. However, the mechanics are just the path to the final destination of any magic trick – THE EFFECT. If there is another path that gets you there, TAKE IT. Sleight of hand isn't always the best choice for magicians. Spending years developing sleight of hand techniques for no purpose can be a trap. It's a 'time vampire'. I recommend every magician learn a range of impressive self working card magic tricks, THEN work on building their sleight of hand IF AND WHEN they find a really valid reason to spend time on it's development.

I see so many magicians come to the Merchant of Magic with stunning technique, but no presentation skills. They spend years alone in their bedrooms practicing their shuffles, but spent little energy learning to communicate and entertain. When I work on showmanship or presentation with a magician, I insist that we use a self working card magic trick from the series. That way we can focus on presentation 100%. It's probably one of the most dramatic causes of improvement that I achieve from my magic tuition.' – Dominic Reyes

Want to learn more about Ultimate Self Working Card Tricks Vol 3? Here's the full details